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wvdial package

  1. Bug #46685
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 46685

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Diego Cortassa (diego-cortassa) wrote : Re: wvdial upgrade causes system crash

On my laptops keeps printing the same sequence many times and hangs:
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$ sudo strace wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
[..... Scrolled out content.....]
nanosleep({0, 1000000}, NULL) = 0

waitpid(6235, 0xbf914d94, WNOHANG) = 0

read(4, 0xbf914e24, 1) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

nanosleep({0, 1000000}, NULL) = 0

waitpid(6235, 0xbf914d94, WNOHANG) = 0

read(4, 0xbf914e24, 1) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

nanosleep({0, 1000000}, NULL) = 0

waitpid(6235, 0xbf914d94, WNOHANG) = 0

read(4, 0xbf914e24, 1) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

nanosleep({0, 1000000},
[HANGS]
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I googled for the problem, seems like it is known :

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fifth/msg04918.html